Michel Tapié Condottiere

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Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Michel Tapié Condottiere
signed, titled and dated 'J. Dubuffet 46 Michel Tapié' (lower right)
wax crayon on paper
16 1/8 x 12 in. (41 x 30.5 cm.)
Executed in 1946.

Provenance

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Acquavella Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1982

Literature

M. Loreau, ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule III, Plus Beaux Qu'ils Croient (Portraits), Paris, 1966, pp. 23, 118-119, no. 23 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie René Drouin, Portraits à ressemblance extraite, à ressemblance cuite et confite dans la mémoire, à ressemblance éclatée dans la mémoire de M. Jean Dubuffet, peintre, October 1947, no. 39 (illustrated).
Berlin, Akademie der Künste; Vienna, Museum Moderner Künste and Köln, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Dubuffet: Retrospektive, September 1980-March 1981, pp. 61 and 313, no. 51 (illustrated).
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Mirό: Early Drawings Collages 1919-1949/Dubuffet: Early Drawings/Collages 1943-1959, November-December 1981, no. 5 (illustrated).
New York, Acquavella Galleries, XIX & XX Century Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, Gouaches, Collages, October-November 1982, p. 23 (illustrated).

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For a portrait to function really well, I need it to be barely a portrait. At the limit that it is no longer a portrait. It is then that its function takes its full force. I love things taken to their extreme limit. - Jean Dubuffet

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